Cost estimate for F-35 to soar, Pentagon says

Star Telegram ^ | 3/07/2010 | Bob Cox

[GeronL]

Like any other government program, the initial cost estimates are simply to get something passed. Like ObamaCare and anything else, the price will spiral out of control.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Sticker shock might persuade buyers to purchase Super Hornets or F-15SGs

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[DesScorp]

It’d almost be funny if it was so sad with all of the JSF fanboys here. The Joint Strike Failure.... less than a shadow of the F-22... will cost MORE than the F-22.

[mgstarr]

Besides a Change Order, I’ve never understood why costs suddenly change. You submit a bid and you’re bound by it unless the specs are changed.

Oh wait, that’s the real world and not the world of hidden government subsidies.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

$135 million dollars a plane. Its way too much. I would try to ressurect the F-22

[Thunder90]

For the navy, bring back the design specs for the Sea Raptor. For now, use the superhornet and plasma stealth technology.

[GeronL]

Costs suddenly change because it was low-balled from the beginning in order to get Congress to pass it I suppose.

[GeronL]

That too.

[GeronL]

Bring back the F-22!

[mgstarr]

In my “real” world, you’re bound by bids unless there’s a change order.

So much waste. So much fraud.

[clintonh8r]

Slap a VAT on that sucker and let ‘er rip!

[Yo-Yo]

The F-22 line closes in early 2011. It's not too late to keep it open, and order more F-22s at under $150 million each flyaway costs, but if the line is closed and later reopened, they will cost over $225 million apiece.

That is assuming that the USAF pays Lockheed to properly store the production tooling, rather than destroying it.

Rand Study on F-22 production alternatives.

[HiTech RedNeck]

has anything like this ever come in on budget? ever?

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks!

[Sequoyah101]

Or F-15SE perhaps?

[Sequoyah101]

Brilliant reporting...lots of what but no why and how.

[Sequoyah101]

Lockheed are the wrong contractor. They did good with unique and skunk works airplanes, great with the C-130, good with the C5 and the C-141 was ok but retired early for structural problems as I recall. We also spend a boat load rebuilding the C5 properly. The last fighter Lockheed built was the F-104.

Lockheed do not have a culture of production.

[AFreeBird]

And we cancelled the F22 because it cost how much?